Hans Leibelt

Once a Greek (1966)

An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann. ...

Der Mann, der sich Abel nannte (1966)

Die Affäre (1965)

Das Liebeskarussell (1965)

An episodic film, telling four erotic tales: Angela isn't sexually satisfied by her husband, so she simulates sleep-walking to visit her neighbor across the street every night; when his bathtub runs over, shy Peter gets to meet his sensuous neighbor Lolita ...

Die Brücke von Estaban (1964)

Die erste Legion (1964)

Black-White-Red Four Poster (1962)

Germany during World War I. Young Jean falls in love with Germaine. To put an end to the affair, Father de Wehrt sends his son to the countryside. When the high school senior starts flirting with Gertrud there, he is sent to the army. ...

The 42nd Heaven (1962)

Musical comedy about a marriage registrar. ...

Max der Taschendieb (1962)

Max, a small time pick-pocket, has nothing to do with the 'big' crimes. But then he must find the murderer of Fred, his wife's brother. ...

Der Himmel kann warten (1962)

Unerwartet verschied... (1961)

The Black Sheep (1960)

Father Brown starts solving crimes, much to the annoyance of his housekeeper, the police and especially his bishop, who is not amused by a priest playing detective. ...

Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1960)

Piroschka (1960)

The Ambassadress (1960)

So ist es - ist es so? (1960)

Der wahre Jakob (1960)

Dr. Knock (1960)

Mein Schulfreund (1960)

In the midst of World War II, postman Ludwig Fuchs writes a letter to his former school friend Field Marshal Hermann Göring, urging him to work for peace. He is declared mentally incompetent. After the war, he struggles to shake off the stigma of alleged ...

A Glass of Water (1960)

Intrigue and scheming at the court of Queen Anne of England between liberal Lord Bolingbroke and Lady Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. German comedy after the play of Eugène Scribe. ...

Zwei alte Damen feuern (1960)

Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil (1959)

Second part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in 19th century Germany. ...

Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil (1959)

First part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid 19th century Germany. ...

Herbert Engelmann (1959)

The Man Who Walked Through the Wall (1959)

Mr. Buchsbaum, third class taxes employee, lives a peaceful life until the new chief immediately criticizes his work. His only confort is his stamps collection. Sadly, even this consolation and his peace are threatened by a new, charming, neighbour who tea ...

Labyrinth (1959)

Georgia Gale was a great poet, but then she stopped writing and started drinking heavily. Now, as a desperate last resort, she has traveled to Switzerland, where she hopes to find a cure. ...

Everyday's not Sunday (1959)

While Eva is in the hospital after an accident, her son, Peter, goes in search of his long-missing father. Learning he has died, Peter then prepares himself for the new man in his mother's life. ...

Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste (1959)

The Man Who Sold Himself (1959)

Meant to be a diatribe against yellow journalism and current social ills, this weakly limned drama by Josef von Baky features a reporter who works for one of the tabloid papers. The reporter digs up dirt on the past life of a local hotel owner, and wanting ...

Der Haustyrann (1959)

Cafe owner Paul Perlacher is a real pig: not only are his daughter and sister Trude embarrassed constantly by his disgusting behavior, but his tenants are subjected to every legal trick under the Sun to get them to move out. Nevertheless, Amalie Hartning's ...

Land, das meine Sprache spricht (1959)

Aren't We Wonderful (1958)

Kurt Hoffmann′s satire concerning Germany′s development during the first half of the 20th century tells the story of two schoolmates - Hans and Bruno. They could not be more different. While Hans is ambitious and must always work hard for his career, i ...

Peter Voss, der Millionendieb (1958)

Writer Peter Voss is faking a bank robbery, to find the robber of a rare jewelery. ...

Die Beklagte (1958)

Der Pauker (1958)

Secondary-school teacher Dr. Hermann Seidel is transferred from his sleepy, provincial grammar school to the big city. Here, he has to deal with a class of obstreperous students, where his outmoded teaching methods help him precious little. ...

Gruß und Kuss vom Tegernsee (1957)

A 1957 German musical comedy heimatfilm. ...

Frühling in Berlin (1957)

Es wird alles wieder gut (1957)

Vater sein dagegen sehr (1957)

Margot is looking forward to moving into the old defense tower with her fiancé Lutz, a writer. Then the writer receives the news of his sister's death. Lutz is supposed to take in their children Traudl and Rudi and the dog Leo. Margot did not expect so mu ...

Der tolle Bomberg (1957)

No overview found. ...

Ein Fremder kam ins Haus (1957)

A lot has happened in Cecily Harrington's life. The young woman has not only won 10,000 pounds in the lottery, but has also unceremoniously dumped her fiancé Nigel after falling head over heels in love with Bruce Lovell. But after their wedding, when they ...

Heiraten verboten (1957)

Kleiner Mann - ganz groß (1957)

His grandpa gives the orphan boy Robbie a foal that they call "little brother". The boy loves the animal and wants to train it as a racing horse - but then his grandpa dies. Robbie's sister isn't old enough to care for themselves, so they get a guardian wh ...

Heidemelodie (1956)

Wo war David Preston? (1956)

Mädchen mit schwachem Gedächtnis (1956)

Anny arrives in Munich to start a career as an actress, but soon ends up without money and job, sleeping on a park bench. When the police picks her up, she pretends to have amnesia and is taken to the police station. There she's surprised to get presented ...

San Salvatore (1956)

Charley's Aunt (1956)

Otto Dernburg is forced by circumstances to dress up as a middle-aged woman. ...

Die Herrin vom Sölderhof (1955)

Waltz King (1955)

Du mein stilles Tal (1955)

Elisabeth, wife of a landowner, has kept from her husband for twenty years that their daughter is not his. Rather, she is the result of an affair with a musician she was dating shortly before their marriage. Now this man, by now a famous concert pianist, e ...

Laß die Sonne wieder scheinen (1955)

Die spanische Fliege (1955)

Four respectable men in Daxburg once footed child support for the same mysterious dancer. Twenty years later, the opening of a new local court threatens to expose their secret and a string of anonymous donations from that dancer. As scandal nears, they mus ...

Ihre große Prüfung (1954)

Und der Himmel lacht dazu (1954)

Brother Martin is a creative, unusual, and understanding member of the order. He loves using unusual methods to raise money for the poor. But not everyone likes this. Finally, his opponents manage to have him placed under house arrest, but that's precisely ...

Ein Mädchen aus Paris (1954)

Dein Mund verspricht mir Liebe (1954)

The Charming Young Lady (1953)

Under the Stars of Capri (1953)

A comedy about a white yacht and four attractive young women who want to impress a sailing club with their seaworthiness. A fifth "girl" turns out to be a photo reporter in disguise, who joins the voyage instead of his sister in order to get ahead professi ...

The Divorcée (1953)

Die vertagte Hochzeitsnacht (1953)

They Call It Love (1953)

Heute nacht passiert’s (1953)

A professor inherits a fashion salon from a former lover. Since he doesn't want his wife to find out about his previous love life, he asks his son-in-law to take over the running of the place. Needless to say, that leads to a lot of misunderstandings. ...

Ehe für eine Nacht (1953)

Fritz und Friederike (1952)

Haus des Lebens (1952)

Heidelberger Romanze (1951)

The rich and jung American Susanne falls in love with the Student Hans-Joachim. Set in the romantic Heidelberg. ...

Miracles Still Happen (1951)

Es geht nicht ohne Gisela (1951)

Küssen ist keine Sünd (1950)

Epilogue (1950)

The reporter Peter Zabel stumbles upon the sinking of the luxury yacht Orplid in Hamburg on August 14, 1949. The ship went down with a wedding party run by artists on a pleasure trip from Hamburg to Scotland . In spite of good weather and no technical prob ...

Der Mann, der sich selber sucht (1950)

Die Lüge (1950)

Three men are planning a balloon ascent into the stratosphere. During the balloon flight, complications arise, the balloon is driven out to sea and the men face death. ...

My Niece Suzanne (1950)

A Parisian cocotte at the turn of the century plans to capture a very rich Peruvian for marriage and hires her servant as an uncle who is supposedly supposed to watch over her virtue. ...

City in the Fog (1950)

In the Danish port city of Belgesund, the caretaker of a private high school has fallen victim to murder. Detective Thomsen takes on the case and finds that behind the clean facade there are abysses. He has five suspects in mind: the teacher Berling, who i ...

Geliebter Lügner (1950)

The young fashion illustrator Jeanette meets the chief engineer Rudolf Siebert at an artists' festival in Schwabing, but thinks he is the talented but poor painter Braubach, whom she admires and would like to support. The spoiled Siebert is happy to put up ...

Gefährliche Gäste (1949)

The playboy Peter Anders is financially bankrupt, so he puts up his villa for sale. But during this time, 3 harmless gangsters, Franz, August, and Poldi, settled in Anders's estate to try to sell the villa on their behalf. ...

Ich mach Dich glücklich (1949)

Artistenblut (1949)

A clown and a merchant, who look so much alike they could be mistaken for one another, switch places because each would rather live the other's life. ...

Palace Scandal (1949)

During the Biedermeier era, a young singer searches for her missing father. Remake of "Das Hofkonzert", 1936. ...

Eine alltägliche Geschichte (1948)

1-2-3 Corona (1948)

Post-war Germany 1945: Two rival gangs of uprooted boys fight each other in the ruins of Berlin, whose business is the black market out of necessity in order to survive. Their respective leaders are Gerhard and Dietrich. A pretty young circus artist named ...

Marriage in the Shadows (1947)

Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin. Confident in her career, Elisabeth, who is Jewish, ignores the advice of a colleague to leave Germany in the face of increasing anti-Sem ...

Police Raid (1947)

Shortages in postwar Berlin have created a blooming black market, and the goods rounded up during a major police raid all seem to come from the same source. The trail leads Commissioner Naumann to the Alibaba Cabarett, but he is unable to find conclusive e ...

Somewhere in Berlin (1946)

After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs for his father's return from a POW camp. One day a stranger arrives, ...

Peter Voss, der Millionendieb (1946)

Polly Petterson is a major customer of the Van Geldern bank, which manages her assets to the tune of one million. When she wants to withdraw the entire amount, the bank, which has speculated, threatens to go bankrupt. The employee Peter Voss then steals th ...

A Cheerful House (1944)

Viktor Werneberg is a widowed swimming instructor with three children, who meets the sophisticated Irene Müller advice column in a newspaper. Although the two strike up a bond he is concerned that his chaotic household, including a lazy uncle Paul and an ...

The Roedern Affair (1944)

Prussia, at the time of Frederick the Great. In his service is Major General Dietrich Edler von Roedern, a renowned fortress builder who pursues his work with fanatical zeal and seriousness. He is not in the mood for women or festivities. Although he is ma ...

Die Zaubergeige (1944)

Around 1850, a young violin virtuoso steals a Stradivarius from the museum of a southern German royal residence in order to play for a famous master. By chance, he is able to demonstrate his skills to the sovereign at a court concert. ...

The Punch Bowl (1944)

Writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told him that he missed out on a great life experience since he was home schooled. ...

Journey into the Past (1943)

With her daughter Anita, a young singer, the widow Marianne von der Halden undertakes a journey into the past. She wants to see her former admirers again. One of them is the chamber singer Paul Schneider, who only remembers his childhood sweetheart with ir ...

I'll Carry You in My Arms (1943)

After five years, the marriage of chemist Dr. Herbert has become so routine, that his wife Karin sees no other choice but to leave her husband, even if she still loves him. She retreats to her parents' place and takes a job in her father's factory, while ...

Die Wirtin zum weißen Röss'l (1943)

Up till now, Eri Bel and Heinz Marius were a happy couple only on the movie screen. Now, however, the successful film stars want to be a happy couple in real life. After the next film they star in together, the whole thing should be a reality. ...

Der kleine Grenzverkehr (1943)

A Waltz with You (1943)

The composer Hans Helmer can really count his happy blessings: he is married to a wonderful woman, who also happens to be a celebrated operetta star. But Hans is suffering from the success of his wife and is constantly in her shadow. He also doesn't wan ...

Meine Freundin Josefine (1942)

Die Sache mit Styx (1942)

Much Ado About Nixi (1942)

Nixi has a vivid imagination and she makes extensive use of it. After parting from her longtime fiancée after an argument, she tells her father, that she's pregnant --- and by another man: the police prefect Roland von Gabriel, whom she met after an aut ...

Tanz mit dem Kaiser (1941)

The young emperor Joseph II of Austria and Hungary is not interested in romance and marriage, and every time his mother makes arrangements for him to meet eligible young ladies, he escapes under some pretense. This time he is off on a 'tour of inspection' ...

Women Are Better Diplomats (1941)

A seductive dancer (Marika Rökk) helps her uncle to fight against the closing of his casino. Through her feminine charm she achieves diplomatic success. ...

You Only You (1941)

The two stars of an upcoming operetta performance quarrel constantly. but they also fall in love with each other. ...

Der Gasmann (1941)

A man comes into money unexpectatly. That's when the trouble starts. ...

Die schwedische Nachtigall (1941)

Hauptsache glücklich! (1941)

Axel Roth is happy in his marriage and with his job. But his mother-in-law wants more for her daughter and manages to sow discord. When the two of them use cunning to secure an invitation to a high-society gathering at the general director's house, Axel's ...

Carl Peters (1941)

National-Socialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism: the German philologist Carl Peters. He is, at the end of the 1900′s, a noted advocate of the establishment of a German colony. Without support ...

The Sky-blue Evening Dress (1941)

As the son of a fashion house owner in Zurich, Hans Haberland apparently can offer his lovers any article of clothing, for which they're willing to sell themselves. His current girl-toy Lizzie wants this fantastic, sky blue dress -- but it's that dress exa ...

Herzensfreud – Herzensleid (1940)

Herzensfreud-Herzensleid (literally translates to "Heartfelt Joy - Heartbreak"), the 1940 Hubert Marischka German family relationship romantic comedy starring Magda Schneider, Paul Horbiger (later, he appeared in "The Third Man"!), Olly Holzmann, Lucie Eng ...

Small Town Poet (1940)

Paul Schleemueller is the town clerk of Schonbach, but secretly, he is counting on becoming the municipality's mayor one day. However, Paul's real passion is poetry, which he has never admitted to anyone, because he thinks it is unworthy of a municipal di ...

Kora Terry (1940)

When Bartos, the director of the Odeon variety theater, cancels an artist at short notice, he hires the Terrys out of necessity, whose parents were successful variety artists, but who had not yet received an engagement themselves. Both are supported by Tob ...

Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius (1940)

The young Schiller, whose heart and soul are writing and poetry, is forced into the military academy (the pride and joy of the Duke of Württemberg). Schiller is disgusted by the everyday routine of the military, always back and forth between breeding and ...

The Young Lady of Barnhelm (1940)

During the Seven Years' War, Prussian Major von Tellheim sacrifices his own fortune to save a Saxon estate from being plundered. After the war ends he is discharged and left penniless when the government suspects his noble deed was actually due to a bribe. ...

The Rothschilds (1940)

Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era. ...

Mädchen im Vorzimmer (1940)

Casanova heiratet (1940)

The actor Ralph Gregor plays "Casanova" on the stage and everyone expects, that he also lives out the role in real life. Johanna Brinkmann, known as "Joe", tries everything to make her husband jealous of Ralph. Ralph, however, is actually dating his collea ...

Lauter Liebe (1940)

Der Stammbaum des Dr. Pistorius (1939)

A Woman Like You (1939)

Maria Pretorius is the leader of a counseling office in a large factory. She is completely engrossed by her career and so gives the cold shoulder to her colleague Wallrodt, who wants to marry her. Only the young Manfred Thiele is successful in winning he ...

Fräulein (1939)

Miss Annemarie Tessmer is a clerk in the house of the manufacturer Herman Schilling and she is indispensable. She is exploited by all the family members and her own life is completely in the background. Herman Schilling wants his daughter Thea merry with t ...

Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit (1939)

Der grüne Kaiser (1939)

A pilot is suspected of murdering a fraudulent banker who vanished without a trace and is subsequently convicted. After his release, he tracks down the man he was accused of killing, who is living in Brazil under a different identity, and kills him in self ...

Der Schritt vom Wege (1939)

Theodor Fontane's novel about a young girl who as a teenager marries a stiff bureaucrat, has a love affair out of boredom and loneliness and has to suffer the consequences years later should be well known. ...

Tanz auf dem Vulkan (1938)

Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit and charm. He is, however, very unpopular with King Charles X, who is the target of much of Debureau's scornful jests. That would be a somewhat tolerable s ...

The Deruga Case (1938)

The physician Dr. Deruga is suspected of having poisoned his wife out of greed. She died after naming Deruga, poor and in debt, the sole heir in her will. There are a lot of people willing to testify against him in court, including Marta, the dead woman ...

Little Sinner (1938)

In this love triangle, two comrades working at a Berlin auto repair place fall out over a waitress they both want. The only way Rudi can think of winning away Erika from Hanni is to badmouth her to his rival. ...

Eine Frau kommt in die Tropen (1938)

Fritz Holl owns a plantation in Cameroon. He works hard and, with the help of his wife, Helene, also cares for his sister Anna, who became blind after an accident. Fritz is very concerned about Helene, for his once vivacious wife has become depressed. For ...

Was tun, Sybille? (1938)

1938 German film. ...

Mordsache Holm (1938)

A wrecked car is found on the Reichsautobahn between Hamburg and Bremen. Inside is a murdered woman. It soon becomes clear that the woman is the dancer Grazielle Holm. The investigators are certain: it was murder! But unfortunately there are far too many s ...

Großalarm (1938)

The newspaper delivery driver Paul falls in love with Lotte, who works in her mother's kiosk. One day, Paul helps a man in a black Mercedes, who's been in an accident. While helping him, a notebook has fallen out of the man's pocket, which Paul thinks is ...

Das Mädchen von gestern Nacht (1938)

The Secret Lie (1938)

The stand-alone opera singer Carmen Casini dare not admit to her adult son, the spoiled race car driver Cecil, that she ruined her voice on a stormy day at the racetrack and that her career is thus at an end. Meanwhile, Cecil has fallen in love with the p ...

Between the Parents (1938)

When a research physician strays from his spouse for a suspicious journalist and is distracted from his work, the wife tries to take over his studies on an epidemic, to help him. ...

Rätsel um Beate (1938)

After her husband suddenly dies, a small town woman becomes the target of gossip, as to whether he had been having an affair and whether she is connected to his demise. ...

My Friend Barbara (1937)

Barbara's family is poor and she needs to come up with a way to pay the gas bill. At her job in a cinema she listens to the conversation of a cheating wife and her affair. Barbara offers the husband of the cheating wife, a wealthy chemist, to help him get ...

Gewitterflug zu Claudia (1937)

Lufthansa captain Hans Droste is friends with English pilot William Crossley, who saved his life during the war. Having just landed in Berlin, Hans receives a telegram from his friend urgently asking him to fly to London and check on his dying uncle, Sir R ...

Signal in der Nacht (1937)

German film (1937). ...

Love in Stunt Flying (1937)

Mabel is a successful pilot who hates sensational media, but falls in love with Jack, a womanizer journalist with conservative views on gender. When the two of them get married, they make a deal: Mabel will cease to fly as long as Jack doesn't interview an ...

Wie der Hase läuft (1937)

Whenever Pastor Piepenbrink gets his "deputatsrabbit", there's a frenzy in Pumpelshausen. For every time the rabbit is hung on the gable of the parsonage, every man in the village has the ambition to kidnap it. For that reason, the field watch Fuchtel is ...

Die Warschauer Zitadelle (1937)

Considering Germany's own treatment of Poland in 1939, it is ironic in the extreme that the 1938 German film Um Freiheit und Liebe (For Freedom and Love) is a celebration of Poland's declaration of independence from Russia. Werner Hinz plays Konrad, an ide ...

Kinderarzt Dr. Engel (1936)

Under Blazing Heavens (1936)

In this exotic adventure, unscrupulous gun runners threaten a captain, and a ship is in danger of sinking. ...

The Night with the Emperor (1936)

A dancing girl succeeds in getting Napoleon, in 1808, to pardon her lover, a German artist who has drawn an unflattering caricature of the French emperor during his Erfurt conference with the Czar and several local princes. ...

Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine (1936)

Relations between Huckebein, a humble tailor, and Greizinger, a wealthy farmer, become strained after Greizinger breaks off the romance between his son, Franzl, and Huckenbein's daughter, Evi. However, after a situation with a 100 mark note taken from a pa ...

Back in the Country (1936)

A man supposed to be dead returns from the US to save his family land, resist a rival's attempt to frame him for a shooting, deal with an odious banker, and make sure the heroine finds the right husband. ...

A Woman of No Importance (1936)

Sylvia, the daughter of the pastor Kelvil, is lectrice to Lady Patricia and gets to know the young Lord Harford. They love one another, but their class differences forbid marriage. There's a sharp argument with the father, who afterwards wants to send th ...

A Wedding Dream (1936)

Officials and royalty flock to a popular tavern on the Polish-Russian border,the lady owner scours the visitors for a prospect to marry off to her unwed daughter. ...

Men Before Marriage (1936)

German romantic comedy from Carl Boese. ...

Incognito (1936)

The bored heir to a soap factory is able through pure chance to work incognito in the 153rd branch of the business. While doing so, he falls in love with a beautiful customer, gets into a rivalry with a jealous worker and helps to expose a dishonest boss. ...

Savoy-Hotel 217 (1936)

A Moscow hotel waiter, found at the scene of a murder, tries to locate the real killer among a series of suspects. ...

The Higher Command (1935)

A Prussian commander disobeys orders and goes to find a British envoy who can negotiate a pact with Austria to help fight off Napoleon in 1806. ...

Der grüne Domino (1935)

The film The Green Domino is adapted from the 1933 stage play Der Fall Claasen by German dramatist Erich Ebermayer, whose works often examined criminal cases and moral dilemmas. Ebermayer's play, premiered at Vienna's Akademietheater, centers on a mysterio ...

The Royal Waltz (1935)

A love story based in Munich in 1852: An Austrian officer belonging to the nobility has the mission of ensuring the young Kaiser Franz Joseph doesn't endanger his future marriage to Princess Elisabeth by his acquaintanceship with the daughters of a coffee ...

Stradivari (1935)

In 1914 a Hungarian officer inherits a Stradivarius which is believed to bring back luck to its owner. He and his Italian fiancée are separated by the First World War, and he is badly wounded. ...

The Grey Pikes Wharf (1935)

Otto is pressured by his former girlfriend Mila to marry her. His friend and colleague Franz gets him a new job at Bernhard Münchow's remote auto repair shop, where Otto is safe from Mila for the time being. But then he falls in love with Käthe, the daug ...

The Blonde Carmen (1935)

A singer tired of the stage retreats to a hotel in the country. There, she finds love and a way back into show business. ...

Die törichte Jungfrau (1935)

The Old and The Young King (1935)

The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia. ...

Besuch im Karzer (1934)

Heinz in the Moon (1934)

A young man of property is engaged to two women at once. ...

The Island (1934)

A case of espionage in high society: To save the reputation of his county, a diplomat voluntarily takes his own life. ...

Three Times Before (1934)

A bickering husband and wife decide to go to a lawyer to get divorced. When in the office, they present their sides of the same story, of which they are wildly different. ...

A Man Wants to Get to Germany (1934)

On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherland is in peril, and risks various obstacles to get back to Europe to join the ranks of fighting men. ...

Die Freundin eines großen Mannes (1934)

A renowned actress rescues a small theater, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. ...

Zimmermädchen ... Dreimal klingeln (1934)

Film by Heuberger. ...

Konjunkturritter (1934)

Wie werde ich energisch? (1933)

Ulfilas Löwe is an exceptionally talented writer, yet he's constantly strapped for cash – the bailiff is his most frequent visitor. Löwe refuses an advance from his publisher because he simply isn't capable of being truly assertive. So, in the publishe ...

Dawn (1933)

Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany. It became a symbol of the new times touted by the Nazi regime. The title (literally "morning-red") is the German term for the reddish ...

Kampf (1932)

The race car drivers Robert Wenck and Kurt Harder are good friends. They become rivals when it appears that Robert is married to Eva. Eva was the former lover of Kurt Harder. Complications will follow. ...

Love at First Sight (1932)

The Lucky Top Hat (1932)

Gottfried Jonathan, a small civil servant, lives as a lodger and is roommates with the blonde Käthe. Although she tries very hard, she can't find a job and can no longer afford her rent of 40 marks. Jonathan secretly loves Käthe and decides to raise the ...

A Girl You Don't Forget (1932)

A GIRL YOU DON'T FORGET can be thought of as a backstage musical that treats the whole world as backstage. Melodies seem to be buzzing through the air, available to anyone in the right state of mind. Willi Forst always is, and he is also an actor who can t ...

The Captain from Köpenick (1931)

Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of Köpenick under military law, arrested the mayor and confiscated the town treasury. ...

Popular Tune (1931)

The story is set in Berlin at the beginning of the 20th century. The members of a singing group live in poor conditions in a dilapidated building. When the manager of the property is murdered, Peter and Paul, both members of the singing group, become suspe ...

The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)

A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late. ...